Welcome family
and friends! Don't you just love this time of year - Spring? This morning it was very cool (38 degrees) in my old Kentucky home. I'm still adjusting from Arkansas to Kentucky. Even though the temps are very cool God's creation is waking up from its winter sleep. The daffodils have given way to tulips, lilies, and irises. The pear trees are giving way to the redbuds and dogwoods. We're looking forward to summer and its wonderful blessings.
The Watterson Trail ladies
have been especially busy over the past few days getting everything ready for
our annual Ladies’ Day 2016, scheduled for this Saturday, April 9th at 8:30 a.m. Our theme is "Turning Lemons into Lemonade." We have invited a very special ladies' day speaker: Janie Craun, editor of the Gospel Advocate's Christian Woman magazine.
I know that
the entire day will enjoyable, encouraging, and challenging to
all who participate. Of course, this is a "ladies only" event. The Watterson Trail men will proudly be serving lunch to all the ladies at 12:00.
Isn’t it true that
there are times in life where it seems that we have been given “lemons?” Now what can you do when life hands you a
lemon? Some immediately give up and
throw away what could have been something wonderful. Some give in to the “lemon” and become sour
and seedy to live a life of quiet desperation.
Some sit and stare at the “lemon” trying to figure out what to do, but give
out too quickly; defeated by a “lemon.”
And then there are some who take the “lemons” of life and with God’s
grace make something delicious and nutritious.
They turn their “lemons” into lemonade to enjoy and share with the
world.
Did you know that “turning lemons
into lemonade” can also be profitable? When
my daughter was little, she wanted to earn some spending money during the
summer. She and her younger brother
spent an entire day building a lemonade stand out of cardboard boxes, painting
signs to place at the end of our driveway, turning lemons into lemonade, and
selling Dixie cups of lemonade for 25 cents each out in the hot Florida sun. Of course, we had to make a trip to the store
at the end of the day. Why? To buy get more “lemons” of course and maybe get
a few other “benefits” of turning lemons into lemonade as well. We cannot always determine the chances,
changes, and challenges that come to us in life. We can however determine the attitude with
which we face those chances, changes, and challenges.
